Research Article
Basic Anthropometric Measures in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients and Individually Sex- and Age-Matched Controls from the General Population
Table 1
Pertinent clinical characteristics categorized by case-control status within each sex and age (≤65/≥66 years) stratum.
| | | Men ≤65 yr () | Men ≥66 yr () | Women ≤65 yr () | Women ≥66 yr () |
| | Anamnestic diabetes | 41 (16)/16 (6) | 41 (18)/27 (12) | 11 (15)/4 (6) | 24 (18)/14 (11) | | | | |
| | Drug-treated hypertension | 111 (44)/60 (24) | 113 (49)/110 (47) | 24 (33)/13 (18) | 79 (61)/69 (53) | | | | |
| | Current smoker | 85 (34)/34 (13) | 27 (12)/17 (7) | 28 (39)/14 (19) | 24 (19)/6 (5) | | | | |
| | Angina pectoris | 31 (12)/4 (2) | 73 (31)/26 (11) | 8 (11)/0 (0) | 42 (32)/9 (7) | | | | |
| | Previous stroke | 6 (2)/7 (3) | 20 (9)/26 (11) | 0 (0)/2 (3) | 14 (11)/14 (11) | | | | |
| | First time MI | 212 (84)/0a | 172 (74)/0a | 64 (89)/0a | 100 (77)/0a |
| | Obesity (BMI ≥30.0) | 69 (27)/39 (15) | 37 (16)/41 (18) | 22 (31)/14 (19) | 35 (27)/24 (18) | | | | |
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aControls have per definition no prior MI. Figures are number (%) for cases/controls.
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